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NORWALK — Polls show that Tom Foley has struggled to connect with women voters, but the Republican candidate for governor is working to close the gender gap. "This is not a race about issues that matter to women and don't matter to men, or matter to men and don't matter to women,'' Foley said. "The issues that face Connecticut right now matter to everyone who cares about the future." Foley was addressing a gathering of more than 50 female supporters — as well as about a dozen men — at the Norwalk Inn and Conference Center on Sunday afternoon. Over a light buffet lunch of fried shrimp, crackers and cubes of cheese, he suggested that his...

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NORWALK — Polls show that Tom Foley has struggled to connect with women voters, but the Republican candidate for governor is working to close the gender gap.
"This is not a race about issues that matter to women and don't matter to men, or matter to...

HARTFORD — Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz came to Connecticut Saturday to rally the party base in hopes of pushing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to victory.Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic Congresswoman from Florida, is the first...

In yet another sign of how badly national Democrats want to keep Connecticut blue, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is coming to the state this weekend.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who leads the DNC, will...

WASHINGTON Potential presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida outlined a tax proposal Wednesday that he said would result in a "significant tax cut for the vast majority of Americans" and its backers hope would lead to a major...

The City of Brotherly Love is becoming the City of Big Events.
Philadelphia's selection Thursday as host of next year's Democratic National Convention comes as it prepares for Pope Francis' visit in September.
U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, who led Philadelphia's...

Wisconsin Republicans on Thursday accused a national Democratic leader of using an inappropriate analogy to domestic violence when she criticized Governor Scott Walker's record on women's issues at a roundtable in Milwaukee a day...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is visiting South Florida to help the Republican Party raise money — and at the same time audition for donors and activists who could prove valuable if he runs for president.
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WASHINGTON – Two Boston bombing survivors and Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA player who came out as gay last year, will sit among the White House’s guests at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. Accompanying First Lady Michelle Obama, they join a list...

Mitt Romney derided President Obama's national healthcare law as a federal "power grab" Thursday while defending the "more modest" state plan it was modeled after, beginning an effort to deal with his biggest vulnerability ahead of the...

WASHINGTON - After an extraordinary emergency session, the House voted early this morning to send the Terri Schiavo case to a federal court in Florida.
The House began voting at 12:20 a.m., as members scrambled to return to Washington during what was...

The state will pay more than $60 million as its share of federal hurricane assistance to Floridians but has no control over how the money is spent or who gets it.
Florida officials also have no plans to ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency for...